Brain Data for Sale? California Updates Privacy Law to Protect Neural Privacy:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday approved an amendment to the existing California Consumer Privacy Act to add neural data as a protected type of sensitive personal information.
California defines neural data as “information that is generated by measuring the activity of a consumer’s central or peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from nonneural information.” The new regulation gives neural data the same protections as other human biometric data, like face scans, fingerprints, or DNA.
Companies like Neuralink monitor and collect brain data in order for their products to function, and other apps may collect or track a user’s neural data in the future for health, fitness, productivity, or other purposes.
“Devices are being made that will read your brain waves,” California State Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan explained during an Assembly meeting on Aug. 31. “We want to make sure that’s protected under California CCPA.”
Yay, we’re saved!
Yeah, no.
Tech companies will just do it and then pay the fine when they’re caught just like they do with “oopsie!” opening the mic and cameras on the phone and whatnot.
I guess this is from last fall, but someone posted about it last week which got me to thinking about it. But not immediately, or I could properly attribute the link source (this one is from an Internet search, not from the blog post I originally saw).
